Pulaski County Attorney Responds to Culver Schools’ Bus Stop Question

A question about whether a school bus may use the easement alongside a roadway to pick up students has generated a response from the Pulaski County attorney but no formal action from the commissioners. Back in June, Culver Community Schools Superintendent Karen Shuman asked for a decision, after a Monterey-area family expressed concern with the pickup location.

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Culver School Board Fills Open Positions, Adds Girls Golf Team

The Culver School Board is gearing up for the start of the next school year. Superintendent Karen Shuman says board members recently took action to fill some open positions, “A new math teacher, a replacement of retired John Browder, and also replacing a special education position for our elementary and hiring a school psychologist and a speech pathologist that we’re doing through a contract.”

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Culver School Board Approves Summer School Classes, Recognizes Retiring Math Teacher

The Culver Community Schools Corporation is putting plans together for summer school. A list of courses and teachers was approved by the school board last week, according to Superintendent Karen Shuman. “We’ll be offering a recovery program at the high school level, along with band and agricultural classes at the high school level, and then doing an IREAD program at the elementary,” she explains.

Shuman says the school board also recognized math teacher John Browder, who’s retiring after 42 years.

In other business last week, board members passed a fund transfer resolution. Shuman says the transfers mainly closed out old accounts that were left over from the previous funding model, which was replaced at the beginning of 2019.